Customized signature messaging service

• US 20060003779A1
• Filed: 06/30/2004
• Published: 01/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pacesetter Incorporated (Abbott Laboratories Incorporated), AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Wireless Services Incorporated (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Lekutai, Gaviphat
• Granted Patent: US 7,239,881 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]

Abstract

Architecture that facilitates the broadcast of a custom signature message to one or more portable wireless devices that enter an associated area of coverage. A subscriber to the service pays a premium to have the rights to broadcast the custom message to all users who enter and/or leave the cell. The rights can be exclusive for a coverage area over an extended period of time. For example, a company can subscribe to broadcast a single message to all wireless users who enter a cell for a period of one year. Subscriber account information includes quality-of-service (QoS) data that indicates the highest level of service such that when a wireless device is detected as entering the cell, only the subscriber'"'"'s message will be broadcast to all users for a brief time.

Claims

1. A system that facilitates the transmission of a customized message to a portable wireless device, comprising:

a detection component that detects the presence of the portable wireless device; and

a signaling component that transmits the customized message to the portable wireless device in response to detection thereof.

2. The system of claim 1, the portable wireless device is one of a cellular telephone, a person digital assistant, and a wireless air card.

3. The system of claim 1, the portable wireless device is a short message service (SMS) device.

4. The system of claim 1, the customized signature is broadcast to all devices that enter a specific cell site.

5. The system of claim 1, the customized message is broadcast for a given period of time.

6. The system of claim 1, the customized message is transmitted according to a quality-of-service (QoS) parameter.

7. The system of claim 1, a user of the portable wireless device can manually disable reception of the customized message.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising a subscriber service component that stores the customized message, and from which the customized message is retrieved for transmission to the portable wireless device when brought into a cell site associated with the customized message.

9. The system of claim 1, the portable wireless device is a portable computing device.

10. The system of claim 1, the customized message is transmitted only to a subset of a plurality of the portable wireless devices that enter an associated cell site.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising an intelligence component that employs a probabilistic and/or statistical-based analysis to prognose or infer an action that a user desires to be automatically performed.

12. The system of claim 1, the customized message includes at least one of text, text enhancements, audio, video, and an image.

13. The system of claim 1, the customized message is modified according to at type of the portable wireless device on which the message will be presented.

14. The system of claim 1, the customized message is one of a plurality of different customized messages each of which is associated with a different cell site, such that as the portable wireless device enters a given cell site, one of the different customized messages is transmitted thereto.

15. The system of claim 1, the customized message is broadcast any language and/or abbreviated text message.

16. A wireless technology that employs the system of claim 1.

17. A system that facilitates the transmission of a customized message to a portable wireless device, comprising:

a subscriber service component that stores the customized message in association with account data of a subscriber;

a detection component that detects a signal property of the portable wireless device in a cell site;

a signaling component that transmits the customized message to the portable wireless device in response to the signal property.

18. The system of claim 17, the account data includes at least one of the customized message, cell site ID, and QoS data.

19. The system of claim 17, when the portable wireless device enters the cell site, the customized message is an entry message that is transmitted, and when the portable wireless device leaves the cell site, the customized message is a departure message that is transmitted to the portable wireless device.

20. The system of claim 17, further comprising an intelligence component that employs a probabilistic and/or statistical-based analysis to prognose or infer an action that a user desires to be automatically performed.

21. The system of claim 20, the action includes at least one of disabling reception of the customized message and filtering multimedia components of the customized message to receive the customized message in a predefined format.

22. A cellular telephone communication system according to the system of claim 17.

23. An SMS communication system according to the system of claim 17.

24. A multimedia messaging service (MMS) communication system according to the system of claim 17.

25. A method of providing customized messaging to a portable wireless device, comprising:

detecting signal properties of the portable wireless device in a cell site; and

transmitting a customized message to the portable wireless device for presentation to a user thereof based on the signal properties.

26. The method of claim 25, further comprising at least one of the acts of:

analyzing the signal properties to transmit the customized message as an entry message when the portable wireless device enters the cell site; and

analyzing the signal properties to transmit the customized message as a departure message when the portable wireless device begins to leave the cell site.

27. The method of claim 25, further comprising broadcasting the customized message to all portable wireless devices in the cell site.

28. The method of claim 25, further comprising rotating through a plurality of the customized messages, each of which is different, the act of rotating based on a time parameter.

29. The method of claim 25, further comprising adjusting a QoS parameter in order to transmit the customized message.

30. The method of claim 25, further comprising managing reception of the customized message at least one of manually and automatically.

31. The method of claim 25, further comprising,

storing the customized message in a subscriber account database;

and

retrieving the customized message when a cell ID is determined.

32. The method of claim 25, further comprising the acts of:

accessing QoS data associated with the cell site; and

transmitting the custom message in accordance with the QoS data.

33. The method of claim 25, further comprising transmitting the customized message only to a registered wireless device of a registered user who enters the cell site.

34. The method of claim 25, the customized message is related to a subscriber account of at least one of a business and a private individual.

35. The method of claim 25, further comprising formatting the customized message according to a type of the portable wireless device, the message formatted according to at least one of font, text enhancements, audio, video, and an image.

36. A method of providing customized messaging to a portable wireless device, comprising:

detecting signal properties of the portable wireless device in a cell; and

analyzing the signal properties to transmit a customized message that corresponds to at least one of an entry message when the portable wireless device enters the cell site and a departure message when the portable wireless device begins to leave the cell site.

37. The method of claim 36, the customized message is one of a plurality of different customized messages each of which is associated with a different cell site, such that when the portable wireless device enters a given cell site, one of the different customized messages is transmitted thereto for presentation to a user of the device.

38. The method of claim 36, further comprising disabling presentation of the customized message at least one of manually and automatically.

39. The method of claim 36, further comprising filtering attributes of the customized message based at least upon the type of portable wireless device to which the customized message is transmitted.

40. The method of claim 36, further comprising rendering the customized message on the portable wireless device according to at least one of hardware and software parameters of the portable wireless device.

41. The method of claim 36, further comprising transmitting a sequence of related customized messages to the portable wireless device as the portable wireless device moves through a plurality of corresponding cells.

42. The method of claim 36, further comprising transmitting customized messaging related to at least one of advertising, an honorary event, directions, and personalized data.

43. The method of claim 36, the customized messaging is compatible with at least one of an SMS and an MMS technology.

44. A system that facilitates transmission of a signature message to a mobile communications device, comprising:

means for associating the signature message with a cell ID;

means for detecting the presence of the mobile communications device;

means for detecting the cell ID of a cell in which the mobile communications device resides;

means for retrieving the signature message;

means for access QoS data related to the signature message;

means for transmitting the signature message to the mobile communications device; and

means for presenting the signature message to a user of the mobile communications device.